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bizzApps
Cordys Europe BV
Vanenburgerallee 13
3882 RH Putten
THE NETHERLANDS
Tel: +31 (0) 341 37 5555
Fax: +31 (0) 341 37 5500
URL: http://www.guardess.com or http://www.cordys.com
Email: info@cordys.com
Contact: Mario Remmers


bizzApps, formerly known as Cordys, formerly known as Vanenburg, formerly known as Guardess, and before that Delaware TQM Products, is a global provider of real-time enabling and application solutions based on Web Services that allow enterprises to easily define, deploy and manage business processes that are highly flexible, collaborative and involve seamless interaction.

In June 2005, Cordys intensified the focus on its platform activities and moved its application activities into a separate organization called bizzApps. Cordys considers further focus the key for success of both platform and applications activities. Separating the platform from the applications business, Cordys expects to better meet customer's needs by allowing staff to focus more on their core competencies. As a result of the separation, the activities around Cordys' lean manufacturing solutions -- viz. the Quality Manager and Kanban Manager -- were transferred into bizzApps. bizzApps will focus on building best-in-class service oriented business applications based on Cordys Business Collaboration Platform. bizzApps will serve as a model ISV alliance to other companies, using Cordys as the platform of choice. bizzApps will solely focus on solutions for the manufacturing industry. The company will enable manufacturing enterprises to achieve operational excellence through standards based off-the-shelf packaged composite applications to optimize business processes across their value chain.

bizzApps provides Quality Management solutions for the Chemical, Metal, Consumer Packaged Goods, Pharmaceutical, High-tech equipment, Aerospace & Defense, Electronics, and Automotive industries. bizzApps enables manufacturing companies to manage their quality chain from R&D to after sales services. Quality Navigator, bizzApps' integrated enterprise quality management suite, helps customers achieve requisite quality levels at lower costs. Quality Navigator brings content in the customer's Supply Chain concept through global integration of Research & Development, Vendor Monitoring, LIMS, Recipe Management, Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Non-Conformance Handling, Statistical Process Control and Health, Safety and Environment.

Quality Navigator consist of four main modules: Quality Navigator for Research & Development (R&D), Quality Navigator for Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC), Quality Navigator for Manufacturing Quality Execution (Q-MES), and Quality Navigator for Health, Safety and Environment (HSE). The LIMS functionality is part of the kernel. Quality Navigator is made up of separate components that enable gradual, step by step implementation, easy customization, and high flexibility. Quality Navigator can be implemented as a "stand-alone" quality management system, as an integrated quality solution of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System, or in combination with custom built legacy MIS applications. Recently Cordys introduced Quality Navigator eGO, an Application Service Provider (ASP) enabled version of the Quality Navigator suite, which allows large enterprises to use the software within an internal ASP framework or through independent ASP companies by using the Internet.

bizzApps sells and markets their solutions through direct sales to end-users and through business partners that include dealers, software integrators and laboratory instrument vendors. Integration of Vanenburg software with third party IT solutions like ERP, MES, SCADA and MRP is a key part of the corporate strategy.

The Quality Navigator suite enables customers to comply with standards such as ISO and QS-9000, and regulations such as the FDA's. Communication with handheld or mobile, the Internet, WAP or security via Fingerprint recognition are some of the many possibilities of Quality Navigator.

Cordys/Vanenburg finalized the purchase of Guardess and their web-services based Quality Management Solution in March 2003. The agreement with Guardess was reached at the end of 2002 and covered all Guardess assets, including the Quality Navigator LIMS solution.

The company purchased Triple P LabInfo Systems in August 1996. Triple P developed the Didyma product line. Didyma LIMS offered full of functionality for all laboratories. These products have been folded into the Delaware Computing/Guardess product line with an upgrade path factored in.

The company also purchased MAQS (Management Architecture for Quality of Service) which develops a Quality Management (QM) solution for discrete industries. MAQS solutions provide a framework for generic quality management based on object-oriented middleware.